Post WWII GI BIll, Etc.

A time of ______ birth rates is a baby boom.

• low

• high

• unchanged

• steady

Match the following

• Baby Boom

• 
• Jonas Salk

• 
• Interstate Highway Act

• 
• G.I Bill / Servicemen's Readjustment Act

• 
• Executive Order 9981

• 

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) World War II

,

(b) Post (After) World War II

• Interstate Highway Act

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombed

• Japanese Internment Camps

• Baby Boom

• Salk's Polio Vaccine

• Housing Boom

• Pearl Harbor

• D-Day

The Interstate ________ Act created a system of roads for cars to drive on.

Jonas Salk created a ________ to prevent the polio disease.

After World War II, there was pressure to follow _______, or to be the same as everyone else.

After WWII, many Americans experienced ________; they could afford nice homes, cars and other luxuries.

Label the picture.

a

b

c

the patient

Jonas Salk

the vaccine

Why was there a housing boom after World War II?

• President Truman integrated the military.

• Jonas Salk created a polio vaccine

• Soldiers were returing home from the war, getting married, and having children. The new families needed homes.

• People were afraid of the atomic bomb.

Which word means that many Americans could afford houses, cars, and luxury items?

• Conformity

• Readjustment

• Baby Boom

• Prosperity